bikes
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Corratec X-Vert 650B Electric Bike: Australian Review
Bicycles are great. They’re compact, quiet, and convenient — as long as you have a helmet, you can jump on and go anywhere, and you’re only limited by the energy in your legs. That’s just about the only limiting factor of bikes — the muscles of the humans riding them. But electric bikes? Now that’s…
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How A Former Video Game Designer Created The Best Intersection For Bikes
Riding through a city on a bike lane that’s separated from cars feels great. But when you roll up to a light, the infrastructure often vanishes, leaving you feeling vulnerable as you cross busy lanes of traffic. Now a new type of intersection might keep cyclists safer and more visible. And it was created by…
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This Is What A Road Bike Might Look Like, If There Were No Design Rules
People don’t often realise it, but the design of every high-end bicycle is shaped, one way or another, by the governing body of bike racing, the Union Cycliste Internationale. This is what bikes might look like if their rulebook didn’t exist.
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A Cheap $10 Bike Brake Light That Only Glows When You’re Stopping
Automatic brake lights that only come on when your bike is slowing and stopping aren’t a new idea. But the folks at Sigma have come up with cheap and clever solution so that their $US10 LED bike brake light doesn’t need a pricey built-in accelerometer.